InterfaceLift makes your workspace pretty…
Personally, I alternate between two states for my desktop background:
Sometimes I keep only a solid color background – especially when I’m worried about my machine going slowly (this is, as I suspected and my research on the subject confirmed, completely a myth. Your background doesn’t slow down your machine directly… It may however, make it harder to switch to the desktop, as your wallpaper may take a few extra seconds to load.)
However, most of the time, I believe a good wallpaper to be the foundation of my productive workspace. Changing my wallpaper frequently provides variation, inspiration and motivation (please don’t ruin this for me if it’s all in my head :) ).
However, finding safe wallpapers for download can be a bit tricky. Many sites claim to provide free backgrounds but instead put all sorts of junk (some of which is very malicious) on your machine. I prefer to avoid these, instead opting for sites like InterfaceLift.
InterfaceLift provides some very nice wallpapers without causing potential harm to your machine. Here are some of my favorites so far:
If this site isn’t doing for you, there are other options:
- MandoLux – very pretty large wallpapers
- Wallpapers loaded with Color – cute stuff!
- Pixel Girl – so cute it will make you vomit cuteness…
- Veer Ideas – strange and interesting wallpapers
Enjoy!
~ab